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Impasto & Mixed Media For Beginners | Nature Elements

teacher avatar Debasree Dey, Acrylic Artist & Educator

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction!

      1:23

    • 2.

      Art Materials

      1:59

    • 3.

      IMP - Before You Start The Class

      0:46

    • 4.

      Water Element - Intro & Colors Reqd

      0:58

    • 5.

      Impasto Water

      12:32

    • 6.

      Air Element - Intro & Colors Reqd

      1:03

    • 7.

      Impasto Air

      8:56

    • 8.

      Fire Element - Intro & Colors Reqd

      1:00

    • 9.

      Impasto Fire - Background

      6:04

    • 10.

      Impasto Fire - Foreground

      9:27

    • 11.

      Earth Element - Intro & Colors Reqd

      0:42

    • 12.

      How To Create Moss

      3:42

    • 13.

      Mixed Media Earth

      11:59

    • 14.

      Outro Skillshare

      1:19

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About This Class

In this class I’m going to teach you impasto & mixed media painting by depicting the elements of nature in my own way! 

Impasto, meaning “in paste” is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on a surface thickly using a knife or a brush. When the thick paint dries, impasto provides texture and the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.

We will create the fire, water and air element using impasto. And the earth element will be created using mixed media to give the aerial view of a forest on earth.

In this class, you will learn about:

  • How to paint impasto
  • How to create realistic textures with knife
  • How to create moss for mixed media
  • How to create a mixed media painting

Materials Reqd:

  1. 4x4 MDF boards or canvas boards
  2. Heavy body acrylic paints
  3. Palette Knife
  4. Plate to mix colors
  5. Tissue papers

This class is beginner friendly. So if you are new to impasto paintings, you can learn a lot here. It will give u a lot of confidence to paint with palette knife..

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Debasree Dey

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Hi, I'm Debasree, an artist and creative educator from India. After spending 10 years in a demanding IT corporate career, I rediscovered my love for art during my time in London. Painting became my escape, and eventually, I left my white-collar job to follow my passion full-time, and it's been the best decision of my life.

Since 2016, I've been sharing this passion with others, teaching art to nearly 20,000 students worldwide and leading over 700 in-person workshops.

For me, art is more than just creating something beautiful--it's about self-expression, healing, and discovering the hidden parts of yourself.

As an educator, my work is to help you identify their inner artist, guide you to create beautiful paintings, which in turn boosts your c... See full profile

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1. Introduction!: Hey guys, welcome to another amazing class. Well, if you like that intro, you're going to love this class. My name is the battery and today I'm going to teach you invest two and mixed media painting by depicting the elements of nature in my own waste. In pesto, meaning in paste is a technique used in painting. Wet paint is laid on a surface, typically using a knife or a brush. When the thick paint dries, investor provides texture and the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas. We will create the fire, water, and the air element using impasto. And the other element will be created using mixed media to give the aerial view of a forest on both the techniques are so much fun and I can't wait to teach you all my tips and tricks. I hope you're excited by now to learn something new. Cia inside the glass. 2. Art Materials: Hey guys, Welcome to this video. So here I'm going to tell you all the art supplies that you're going to need for creating this impasse to add mixed media pieces. Okay, so first of all, you need these four-by-four MDA poster. So this is how they look like. This is how I bought them. And then I painted on one side, white to be able to paint on it. But since we are doing impasto, which means we're going to be laying a thick layer of paint on top of the canvases so you don't have to do this white thing. This is mostly required if you're going to paint on top of it with a light coat of paint. Impasto requires a lot of pain, so this white covering is not important. Also, I will be using a few of my old canvases that I had, which I don't like much. So I'll be using one of them to create these paintings. So I'm just letting you know. I mean, nothing that you need to know how, but I'm just telling you that I'll be painting on a clean canvas like this, but I'll be using some of my old canvases that I had. Okay, so that's the canvas and then we're going to need peak body acrylics, of course. So any brand is fine. I have used beans from basics and from gambling from here. So before each of these tutorials, I will be telling you about the exact color that you need for creating each of these pieces. Okay? And then the most important thing is a nice though. All the bending is going to be doing. Only with naive. I'm not going to use any brush at all. And I am going to use this paper palette for having all the paint on top of it. Because I feel like painting with knife is very easy to pick up the paint from the flat surface rather than from a plate. Okay, so that's all good. I have some tissue paper. Zebra need lots of them. So let's get started. 3. IMP - Before You Start The Class: Impasto doesn't take too long to create, because with just a few strokes, you can create amazing textures. Going over it again may ruin some of the older textures. So it's very important to understand when it is right to stop. So in order to learn it right, I recommend watching each of the lessons first. As you can see that they are not too long. Watch it multiple times if you need to, but at least once and then attempt to creating. Always remember, no two people can create absolutely same textures. So after learning the methods, paint with your own unique strokes to create the paintings. That's all I wanted to say before you dive into the class. 4. Water Element - Intro & Colors Reqd: Everything in nature is made up of five basic elements on Earth, water, fire, air, and space. In this video, let's talk about water. What does he presents? Everything that is liquid on earth. The water element is a huge life force. Water is also known to have healing powers 70 per cent of the Earth and our bodies are made up of water. Water has nurturing energies. You must have realized that when you take a bath or you go swimming, the body naturally relaxes very quickly. Water pulls out. Negativity, balances our emotions and mix our mind calm and focused. Okay, now let's talk about all the colors I have used to create the water painting. I have used just three main colors to work with. Deep Blue, Halo blue, and viridian hue. And of course, mixed with black and white. 5. Impasto Water: So let me start by taking a lot of white paint on my palette knife. So the first thing I'm doing is not a very thick layer of paint, but just enough to cover the canvas. Alice, I'm taking are white and blue. Just a very little touch of payload blue to mix with white to give a vague light. Themes of blue to the wide. Don't want to make it like completely white. So I'm just adding little touch of white to make it date of like a bluish white background. And also, I like to add the colors on the side of my Canvas so that it looks complete on the menu. Look at it from the side as well. Now starts the exact painting of the waves. So I'm mixing a lot of pillow blue with white and kind of mixing the paint and also little bit of dark blue. The top is deep color that I had to get out mixing all of them to create a tip amount of paint. And I am coming on top of my canvas and adding it. Time to add it in a swish, kind of like a spiral direction. And then on top of it, I picked up a huge amount of white band together with little bit of blue from the remaining amount. And adding a little bit of viridian hue also to it to give a little greenish tone to my color palette and adding it on top of it. So in pastor is all about layering of different shades of colors on top of each other. Here I am adding another layer on top of it and kind of trying to squish it down so that it looks like the paint is dripping from the top. So that is the kind of the look that and tried to give you. And you can see I'm picking up a huge quantity of paint here. You have to be generous with the amount of paint you use here. Then with the greenish white paint, I am trying to complete the spiral that is going up. And then I picked up a lot of the dark color because I want to create a contrast of the dark and the light. I picked up. A lot of the top is deep one with a little bit of viridian and added it in the center. And then on top of it I'm going and adding little bit of a wider one. When I'm picking up the white, a little bit of the color from the previous stroke is already on my knife, right? So that color is also helping me get this beautiful blend of color that I'm getting. What I had to do is just pick up white at the color is moving on its own. Also, make sure that when you are adding a layer on top of a previous layer, you're not putting a lot of pressure on your canvas. Because if you do, you're going to mix up all the colors and you're not gonna get the texture that I am getting here. I took out a little bit more of TOC with deep and viridian hue because the dark contrast is also very important. So now I'm adding, going towards the top and adding with a lighter shade of white. This, remember that when you are adding one layer on top of another, you are not putting a lot of pressure on the top layer. Otherwise you're going to mix all the paint. Here. I just added a thick layer of white on top of the previous layer. And when I did this, I'm adding very less pressure, almost like a feather touch with my knife on top of the previous layer. The layer that I just added on top is very prominent. Peak. It's kind of protruding out from the Canvas. So that is the look that I want. So make sure if we're adding a lot of layers, you just be gentle with the top most layer and go very gently on Add to give the texture, to add the paint, to swish it around to give the direction that you want. Do all of this with a very gentle touch. Now I picked up a little more of why it is a huge amount of white and I'm adding on top of it to give a very thick texture of the canvas here and all the paint popping out. So I wanted to create a very thick texture. So that's why I'm adding in lots of layers of paint on top of it. And this can go on as long you want to. I probably add like 34 layers, but you can go on doing this as long you find it. As long you're not happy with what you're getting. Oops, I just slipped my knife. It happens, but I love impasto. And that is only because when the when the mishap happens like this, you're gonna get an exit and you can just tweak around the direction of the paint and it gives us a good finish to it. It's not going to be a lot of problem. Yeah, you need to have a little bit of the hand movement, right? To be able to do this. It just needs a little bit of practice. I have done a lot of investor paintings in the past. And so it's kind of easy for me to give this textures. But if you're doing it for the first time, just take it slow, gentle, and just move it up, move around the paint and see how you feel. Because I feel when I paint impasto, it just gives me such a good feeling like I forget everything in the world and I can just keep painting layer of the lead. If you're doing it for the first time, just see how you're feeling. If you're feeling fun. And because it's, it's very important. The feeling that you get while you're painting, It's not so much about the outcome that you're getting. So I can keep doing this. They died. I never get tired of doing this. So just, just keep trying and keep seeing how you feel, how you're getting the texture. So don't fret too much for doing it first time and you're not getting the exact texture because everybody is going to get a different outcome by doing the same exact technique. So don't feel too pressurized to create the exact same outcome that I'm getting. Just understand the technique, what I'm doing, just the layers that I'm creating, the colors that I'm using in each of the layers and then try doing it on your own. I'm going to push the paint around and add some more layers on top of it. And like unless and until I'm satisfied with the outcome, I'll just keep doing it because I loved doing it. So just keep watching and see how much you want to do it. And if you're painting along with me, just pause it after each of the strokes and then try doing it. If you're practicing for the first time and you will see that you are getting an amazing outcome that you never expected. That is the beauty of investor painting. You never know what's going on, what outcome you're gonna get after each of the strokes because it depends on the colors you're taking, how much amount of quantity of paint you're taking, the direction you're taking, the movement of the night. All of these things decide the outcome of your painting and it can never be same for two people. So now it's almost done. I'm just having a final look at the Canvas and seeing where add just a little bit of touch-up here and there. Not too much, just trying to create some extra texture in the Canvas. So this is just an option that instead of just getting the final touches to the painting. So all this time, I have been using the white on top of the blue band that I already had existing on my knife. Now just before finishing up, I just wiped off my knife completely clean to add a fresh dots of white to finish up the paintings with a vibrant look of white on the top. And that's it. We are done with the water element. I hope you learned how to create a beautiful wave painting with the impasto techniques. Look at it from all the directions. Doesn't it look lovely? There is a lot of paint on this canvas. It's looking gorgeous. It's looking even better in real life than in the camera that you are seeing right now. I'm in love with this creation that I just finished. I hope you give it a try and create this amazing guys, gorgeous piece. Show me what you did. It's such a beautiful one. I can't wait to see what your deal out of this. 6. Air Element - Intro & Colors Reqd: Everything in nature is made up of five basic elements, earth, water, fire, air, and space. In this video, let's talk about air represents everything that is gas on. And it also has a very close relation with human body. The area element. Our most basic connection to life. Our body can only survive if we breed every presents growth and is associated with movement, joy, and happiness. When in a balanced state, air induces courage and perseverance to achieve your course. Now let's talk about all the colors I have used to create the air painting. I have basically focused on creating the sky and the clouds in it to represent the air and the colors that I've used at turquoise tape blue, manganese blue, purple, viridian hue, and light olive green. And of course, black and white. 7. Impasto Air: I'm starting with a lot of light paint and adding into the sky with a mix of manganese blue. I really loved the shade of this blue. It's very pretty. But if you don't have this one, you can use any other blue. Just, just always use absolutely tiny bit of blue. Because right now we are creating the lighter whitish color in the sky and not too much of dark color. Then I picked up a little bit of the purple and adding with a lot of white. You can see I'm using a lot of paint in this. That's because without using a lot of paint, you're not going to get amazing textures. Okay, so always try to be generous where he painting. Ambassador, I know that most of the time we don't want to waste so much of paint and use it on a painting. But the outcome you get, the final painting looks gorgeous only because of the amount of P, okay? So after the powerful, I use a lot of pale blue to mix it up and give kind of like a beautiful did exit of the paint and the texture of the color of the shade and everything. Yeah. Now I am using a lot of black and mixing it with white to create the light grayish color, which is basically the shadow of the clouds, right? So that is what I'm doing by adding little bit of gray here and there. I absolutely love painting skies and clouds with the, with the impasto technique with my knife, because it's so unpredictable, you don't know what you're gonna get it after. It's true. And I just love experimenting and taking the strokes. But one of the most important things you want to remember, well, adding the colors is not to go into many different directions. Just try to stick to 11 foundational direction and then add little bit of texture here and there in different directions. Okay. So shield with a lot of white, I'm just switching the brain around it. I have a lot of white in my naive and trying to add some white clouds to the canvas. Okay, now almost all the clouds are done, are enough for the time being it's done. And now I'm picking up a little bit of purple and dark blue and everything and I'm trying to create the horizon. So the land part of the painting is very less just to show that there is a land below. So I'm just adding little bit of paint now in the horizontal direction to create the horizon. And on top of that, I'm adding some viridian hue because the bottom part I want to do mostly green. So I'm going to add different shades of green, light green and the Dahlgren and create some field like texture in the bottom. Here you can see I have already added a lot of paint on the canvas. Now I'm not adding any paint, but I'm just moving the paint around with the tip of my knife to give the desired direction that I want. Now I'm adding just a tiny bit of black to separate the sky from the holidays. Now I took out a little bit of yellow because I want to add little bit of yellow. It's actually cadmium yellow because I want to add the yellow along with the green. And you can see the beautiful color combination that's happening after the yellow and the green are mixing. It's so beyond my prediction what color is going to give me, how it's going to make some. But I loved the unpredictability of impasto. Look at the beautiful colors that's happening after mixing it with the yellow. Now after the index field as being added, I'm just adding touch-up lag here and there to show the distant trees and you know, one or two trees in-between. And also differentiating between the sky and land. Okay, pretty much the land is done and now I wiped off my a nice clean and picked up quite a bit of white to add one final touch to the sky. Like I said, it's never done until it's done. So I just keep doing until I feel a 100% satisfied with the outcome. But with the previous last layer of clouds that I added, I'm not absolutely happy with how it turned out, so I just wanted to add like one flat texture of the Cloud. It's still a huge amount of paint, but I just gave me the direction that I like. Now I'm going to give it some final touches because the sky has become almost whitish. So I'm going to add some bit of blue to it. So it's a mix of the halo blue and the dark blue, as in the talk with deep. And since I already added a lot of white when I'm adding the blue on top of it, look at the beautiful color combination that's happening. Because the blue is mixing up a little bit with the lower layer of the white. So now I'm going to give some final touch ups before finishing off the painting. So that's it. We finished painting the air element and I'm just having a look at it and seeing if I can add some few fight them that helps. And I like using my finger to add some final textures because we fingers also you can create amazing textures, not just knife. Impasto can be done with finger as well. I probably will create some tutorial in the future, teaching you impasto with the finger. But yeah, this is what as of now, I hope you enjoyed painting this and low and how to create a beautiful, gorgeous sky with clouds and land, basically a mini landscape with the investor technique. 8. Fire Element - Intro & Colors Reqd: Everything in nature is made up of five basic elements. Earth, water, fire, air, and space. In this video, let's talk about fire. Fire is that part of nature that transform one state of matter into another. Five is the driving force behind all life processes. Waiting in a balanced state, fire induces power, confidence, fame, recognition, and money. The fire element is the element of love and all affairs of the heart. Five represents our relationship to ourselves and to others. Okay, now let's talk about the colors I have used to create the fire. For the bedroom. I have used a black, teal, blue, green, and crimson red. And for the foreground for creating the actual fire, I have used crimson, red, orange, and lemon yellow. 9. Impasto Fire - Background: Okay, so I'm starting with a lot of black paint and by painting the background first. Okay. So remember whenever I paint the background, I've told you need to use a lot of paint, like the creamy texture even. This is just to fill up the background, okay? And here I am adding just a little bit of blue and green mix just to give, like, I don't want the background to be absolutely dark with a fire burning in the front. So the fire is basically lifting up a little bit from the dark background. So for that reason I'm adding little bit of the other colors with whatever I have left on my palette. I have a little bit of green, a little bit of blue letter from the previous two paintings. So I'm just trying to use those colors. So not nothing in particular in mind. Like I don't have any particular fascination of color here. Whatever is left in my palette is what I'm using. I actually want to use a little bit more of blue. The direction doesn't matter. None of it matters. We are just painting the background, so just my focus is completely on just filling up the background with a lot of black mixed with little bit of other colors. Okay, now I'm mixing a little bit of red with a black. I am saying little bit is because I'm not taking a lot of gray to paint the actual vibrant fire right now. This is the file that I'm trying to blend it with the background. So while the black is wet, I want to mix in a little bit of red that goes inside into the background. And once this layer dries, I am going to add the proper vibrant layer of fire. So at this point of time, I'm not trying to paint the fire purchase the background of it. And like I said, I wanted to add little bit of colors in the background, so I had some green on my palette. And now I feel like I want to add some blue also to the background to make the background look a little bit more vibrant because I just don't like a lot of black in my paintings. But just to make the fire prominent, I'm making the background black. But again, like the fire is lifting up little bit of the dark background so that only I'm adding little bit of blue to the bedroom. So that is not absolutely jet-black and has some tinge of color in the background. 10. Impasto Fire - Foreground: Alright, so that complete background is done and I have lifted try not completely, but most of it is dried. So now when I paint the fire on top of it, that Tyler is not going to blend in too much with the background. So that's why I've let it sit for like five minutes before doing this layer. Okay, and the three colors that I'm going to be used mainly for the fire, or a crimson, red, orange, and lemon yellow. So I'm starting off with a lot of crimson red now and adding the red on top of the earlier rate that I had added in upward direction. So I'm holding my knife kind of upside down so that I can move it towards the top as in the fire is flowing upward from the bottom. So that is why I'm giving this upward strokes. And with the crimson red, I introduced a little bit of orange. So gradually we're going to go from dark to light and then red, orange, yellow, that is the way we're gonna do. So, yellow is going to be the topmost layer after a red and yellow. So I'm painting the first layer and in some places I'm adding rates, some places I'm adding orange, having fun in the process, and just adding stroke by stroke to create the entire fire. Okay, Now it's time to add the yellow to the painting so the yellow texture is very thick because this is a very old paint that had been lying in my stash for a very long time. I don't use lemon yellow much in my paintings. And, but you can see just by adding the yellow touch to the painting, by mixing yellow with the red and orange. It's already starting to glow like a real fire, right? So you lemony yellow is the most important color I feel to create this building. Also. If your paint is fresh, I mean, I think it's gonna be better for you because my paint is very, very thick and dry and not letting me move it around. As you can see, the paint is also moving along with my knife. That's only because it's very dry, very, very dry. But that's okay. It's it's all fun in the process of experimenting with new colors and all colors. I took out a little bit more of lemon yellow because now it's going to be all yellow on. And we're going to create the top layer after the first two layers. And I'm still struggling, but it's giving me beautiful texture because of the old paint on what I don't know, but I'm loving the texture. See, it's so unpredictable. Again, I was actually writing out the most to create this quiet painting because I have red, orange, yellow is never my color. I don't use these colors in my paintings much. And so I was a little scared to do this, but oh my god, I'm loving this texture that is forming after mixing these things. So one important lesson here is when you mix colors from the same color family. So orange, red, and yellow are from the same color family of the warm colors, right? You get amazing technique, textures and color combinations, kind of like the fluidity of the colors mix with each other and create some beautiful patterns and textures. So this is a good learning to get from this. So you can similarly try if you want to create something else you can take from the family of the cool colors, maybe dark blue, medium blue, and a yellow, lemon yellow, which is the cool, cool color. And try mixing them and you will get some amazing textures that you would never know. Yeah, I'm loving the texture of the fire that is forming. I can actually see the fire. It seems like as a fire coming out from my canvas. Totally love with what's happening is I'm just going to tweak the colors here around a little bit more. Now know the background is already dried, so I am taking little bit of black and blending it with the color because I don't want it to be two separate from the background. I wonder rate to be little bit blended with the background black. So I'm just adding little bit of black with the same night where I had a lot of reddish colors and blending it with the background. So I took out some black because the black was almost over. And now I'm gonna go all over the background and add a layer of black mixed with the red. And you know, adding patches of black here and there to make the loop more by painting look more vibrant. Now I've cleaned up my knife from the leg and the final touch up all the yellow, which is going to be the absolute last layer of the paint. So I'm just adding a little dots of yellow absolutely on the top to give the final touch of the fire to debating. The fire element is done. I think this is my most favorite one located. Look at it from all the sides. Look at that gorgeous textures that are popping out from the Canvas. And it's looking like absolutely real fire burning on my canvas. So yeah, do give it a try. I'm excited to see what you create out of this because it's so unpredictable, you never know what you want to create. So just follow along with me and try creating this beautiful fire painting and show me what you did. 11. Earth Element - Intro & Colors Reqd: Everything in nature is made up of five basic elements, water, fire, air, and space. In this video, let's talk about the art. Art represents everything that is solid on earth. The earth element is the most powerful of all elements. The Earth is our source of stability. Or three, presents balance and terminates center and diagonal directions. When it is in a balanced state, it induces a feeling of stability, peace, and harmony. Now, all you need to create this mixed media painting is green leaves that I'm going to show you in the next lesson, how you can create that. 12. How To Create Moss: In this video, I'm going to show you how you can create this mixed media trees at home in three simple steps. In step one, get a kitchen sponge and start tearing it up like the way I am doing in this step. All you need is some patience and time. So put some music on and enjoy the process. While doing this process, I felt very therapeutic, dipping my finger into this pile of tiny sponge pieces. Wow, look at these tiny pieces of sponge. This is what happened after 40 minutes. Now, in step two, we are going to add colors to it. So keep all the tiny sponge pieces in a box and add the paint you want. If you want, you can browse some aerial images in Google and look at the colors of the greens that you see in the pictures and see the color that you like. And based on that, you can decide the color that you're going to add in this step. I'm adding a color that I prepared by mixing sap green and chrome yellow, both fluid acrylic. You can do this tape with TIG body acrylics also, but you just need to add some water along with the paint. Oh yes. In this tape, your fingers are going to get dirty. So have fun in this process. This feels so good deep in your fingers in paint and having color all over your finger is just amazing. Experience it to know what I'm talking about. Mixtures one color, or you can also add a combination of two colors like I have done here, by mixing some yellow with it. One color just looks too solid to me. I am showing you the process for only light green trees, but I use the same process for creating the dark green trees as well. In that one, I made it dark green color alone with a light cream to give a shade in the colors. That's all for step two. Now let this bunch of dry overnight. Now instead tree up to the colors have dried. This is how the tiny pieces look. You can see that they don't quite look like trees. So now we're going to tear the sponges little bit more unless we are satisfied with the outcome. This tape can go on for as long as you want, and this state will decide the shape of the final trees that we're going to end up with two use in our mixed media painting. And that's all for this lesson. I hope you learned how to create beautiful trees that you can use in your mixed media painting. 13. Mixed Media Earth: For this mixed media, I needed right branch. So I'm headed to into my balcony where I have planned, which is dried. So I'm going to pick up one of the branches from it that I am going to use it in this mixed media. So you can grab something from your balcony if you have plans at home, or you can just pick up something from the road. Okay. So I got the branches. I have the green leaves created from the sponge. And I'm going to use some Dahlia patterns for creating the road of this aerial view. Instead of Dahlia, you can actually use some tables are small rocks if you can find before starting doing the actual artwork, I am just trying to arrange all the items on my Canvas to see what fits where and how it looks. So first of all, I'll start by cutting off the branch into small parts because there's big one is not going to fit my small canvas. Then I'm going to just place some of the green leaves to see what looks good where and just arrange it. Just kind of like, just give me an idea of how I want to, how I want this painting to look like. After adding all the leaves on the canvas, I feel like it's a little big, so I'm just tearing off some of the sponges into even smaller sizes that I like. And now that I have done the entire placement and I have understood what is looking toward. I will start gluing it altogether. So I'm starting off by adding some favorite color to my Canvas. And then I will start by adding the pulses on top of it to create the road. Now after adding the complete Dahlia onto my canvas, I am using a spoon to push it around and give it the desired shape of the road that I want. Now after the first layer of the road is done, I'm going to add more blue and add more data on top of it to create a thick texture. And a former heavy wrote that is very textured tree and it looks very 3D. I'm going to do repeat this tape probably once or twice by adding more blue and more Dahlia and make it higher. Okay, this looks good. As of now, I am happy with how the road is looking. And now I'm going to add some blue on the side and start adding the trees. Just add it in your own way. Whatever feels good to you. There is no right and wrong here, whichever color you can come up with. 34 more other colors of trees. I just have dark green and light green here, so I'm just using them, but be creative. Feel free to add however you like it. Create some different colors. Google real pictures and see the colors that you like and create something of that color. So have fun in the process. This is a, this is the most fun part of the mixed media ads, sticking stuff together and to make it look good by placing them in a creative way. Okay, now I'm adding some white color on the road that I created using dahlia. So if you use white pebbles, then you don't have to do this. Or if you like this yellow color, then also you don't have to do it. It's totally your choice. Or if you want to color it something else, maybe you want to do it brown or black. Your call, do however you like it, you can totally ignore this tape as well. So the coloring is done and this is how it looks. It's pretty wet right now, so I'm going to let it dry. And once it is dry, I am going to add another layer of green on top of this. Okay. Now, it's been quite a few hours and everything is tagged. The road looks good. It's dry. And now I'm going to add a second layer of greens on top of it is just easy. It's just that it's a little messy. So just add more blue and more tree on top of it. Now I'm adding some trees on the side of the canvas, just, just so that it looks like some of the trees are almost like hanging out of the canvas. And it gives a really nice 3D slope. So now almost all the trees are being stuck for the time being, and now it's time to add the branches. Remember the small branches we had at the beginning? And now I'm just going to place the branches and see what looks good where. And again, you'll use your own creativity and see how you want to place the branches. Maybe you want to make them stand perpendicular on top of the Canvas. I just want to make them look like an aerial view as seen from the top of a forest. And that's a look I am trying to give. So that's why I'm not making the branches stand out. I am trying to make them lie down on the, on the on the canvas. But that is just how I like it. Use your own intuition, your vision, and see how you like it. Just place it as in some places and see how you like it and then stick it with the DOM. So this was the second layer of the trees that I added and now I have let it dry. So this is after the second layer has dried a little bit, and now I'm going to add that third layer of the trees. The more layer of trees you add better. It looks, because it looks more 3D, right? So I'm just going to finish it off. This is going to do that Absolutely last tape of this painting. And I'm just going to add some more trees on the side and maybe a little bit more in the center and make it look higher. And with that, I'm going to finish it off. 14. Outro Skillshare: Well, that's it. That brings us to the end of this impasto and mixed media painting class. I had so much fun painting these mini canvases and you should totally give it a try. This is the final look of the paintings after they have all dried. I hope you like them and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Share your works, take pictures of your finished artworks. I would love to see them. If you like this class. I appreciate you writing a review for this class and ask me any questions in the discussion box below. I invite you to explore all the different classes that I've created for you here in Skillshare. If you want to up level your painting scale and create some amazing landscapes. 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